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Habermas In The African E-Village: Deliberative Practices Of Diasporan Nigerians On The Internet, Farooq A. Kperogi
Habermas In The African E-Village: Deliberative Practices Of Diasporan Nigerians On The Internet, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
This chapter examines a many-to-many, collaborative, transnational, diasporic sphere of public discourse called the Nigerian Village Square, which over the years has functioned as an arena for the vigorous exchange of ideas among Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora and as a veritable locus for the initiation of online petition drives to change or influence state policies in the homeland. It is the reinvention, in an electronic form, of the deliberative content of the “village square” in the pre-colonial African social formation where “people from all corners [met] at the Village Square after a hard day's work to …
News With Views: Postobjectivism And Emergent Alternative Journalistic Practices In America’S Corporate News Media, Farooq A. Kperogi
News With Views: Postobjectivism And Emergent Alternative Journalistic Practices In America’S Corporate News Media, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
One of the inchoate yet defining features of journalism in the twenty-first century has been the profession’s unannounced but nonetheless consequential repudiation of the time-honored journalistic ethos of ‘‘objectivity.’’ In this paper, I argue that the gradual renunciation of the ideals of objectivity in contemporary journalistic practice, especially in the United States which birthed the concept, is both a return to journalism’s roots and a back-handed, if profit-inspired, embrace of certain hallmarks of ‘‘alternative journalism,’’ which emerged as a counterfoil to nineteenth-century notions of ‘‘objective journalism.’’ I demonstrate my thesis by historicizing ‘‘objective journalism’’ and linking its emergence to multiple …
―The Evolution And Challenges Of Online Journalism In Nigeria.‖, Farooq A. Kperogi
―The Evolution And Challenges Of Online Journalism In Nigeria.‖, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
The last seven years have seen the phenomenal growth and expansion of not only traditional online journalism but also social media online journalism in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. In this chapter, I trace the evolution and idiosyncratic features of online journalism in Nigeria, explore its variegated manifestations, capture the relational and professional tensions that have erupted between Web-only, mostly diasporan, citizen journalists and more traditional homeland journalists, and show how all this has altered journalistic practice in Nigeria. I also discuss the tensile relationship between citizen online journalists and the Nigerian government, a relationship that has led to the …
Cooperation With The Corporation? Cnn And The Hegemonic Cooptation Of Citizen Journalism Through Ireport.Com, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Cooperation With The Corporation? Cnn And The Hegemonic Cooptation Of Citizen Journalism Through Ireport.Com, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Farooq A. Kperogi
The literature on online citizen journalism tends to construe user-generated citizen media as inherently counter-hegemonic, as the emerging, as yet unformed but nonetheless virile antithesis to the traditional media. This article argues that while the vigorous profusion of web-based citizen media has the potential to inaugurate an era of dynamic expansion of the deliberative space and even serve as a counterfoil to the suffocating dominance of the discursive space by the traditional, mainstream media, we are now witnessing a trend toward the aggressive cooptation of these citizen media by corporate media hegemons. To demonstrate this, I study ‘iReport.com,’ a YouTube-type, …
Divided By A Common Language: A Comparison Of Nigerian, American And British English, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Divided By A Common Language: A Comparison Of Nigerian, American And British English, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Farooq A. Kperogi
We all know that there is such a thing as British English; it is the progenitor of all subsequent “Englishes” (as professional linguists awkwardly call national and sub-regional varieties of the English language) in the world. And we do, of course, know that there is American English, not only because it is the earliest national variety to rebel against some of the quirky conventions of British English—a fact that inspired the celebrated Irish writer George Bernard Shaw to famously remark that “England and America are two countries divided by a common language”— but also because America’s current preeminent position in …
Guerillas In Cyberia: The Transnational Alternative Online Journalism Of The Nigerian Diasporic Public Sphere, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Guerillas In Cyberia: The Transnational Alternative Online Journalism Of The Nigerian Diasporic Public Sphere, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.
Farooq A. Kperogi
The last two decades witnessed the phenomenal migratory flows of Africans, especially Nigerians, to the West, including the United States, at a proportion outpaced only by the Transatlantic Slave Trade. While the political and economic consequences of the migration flows of Nigerians to the United States have been captured fairly robustly in the scholarly literature on globalization, there is scant attention to the transnational online journalistic practices of Nigerians in the diaspora and what impacts these practices have had and continue to have on not just the form and content of journalistic practices in Nigeria but also on the national …
Kparo: A Study Of The Emergence And Death Of A Minority Language Newspaper In Nigeria, Farooq A. Kperogi
Kparo: A Study Of The Emergence And Death Of A Minority Language Newspaper In Nigeria, Farooq A. Kperogi
Farooq A. Kperogi
This paper is concerned with exploring the history, evolution, content, language and death of the Kparo newspaper, an indigenous, state-run minority language newspaper that was published between the mid and late 1980s in Baatonum (more popularly known as Bariba) language for the people of the former Borgu Local Government who occupy the westernmost fringes of Kwara State on Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic.